Patient's wife: We're worried he might have a brain injury from falling off the ladder
Me: Well, the CT scan didn't show anything but just to make sure, we'll do a cognitive screen on him
Patient's wife: What if he has a brain injury that's so severe that he can't work again?
Me: Sir, what is the derivative of 3x squared?
Patient: 6x.
Me: I think he'll be OK.
For the record, I was the only person in the room who knew he was right. Thank you, premed calculus requirement. You finally came in handy for something.
(Fizzy says: You should have asked the integral of 6x and dinged him if he left off the constant.)
I just asked my father that same question. He passed.
ReplyDeleteI would have failed.
ReplyDeleteI would have asked what a "derivative" was...and then followed up with "I can't do simple arithmetic, never mind calculus. Ask me something else."
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